If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?

10] God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation.

[36] Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

[38] And my righteous ones will live by faith.
But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”

[39] But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.

[13] All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth.

[27] It was by faith that Moses left the land of Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger. He kept right on going because he kept his eyes on the one who is invisible.

[35] So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!

[1] God’s Discipline Proves His Love
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

[14] For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who are being made holy.